Cut off the wrong-doer’s hand: what occasion is there for you to put the control and reins in his hand?1575
دست ظالم را ببر چه جای آن ** که بدست او نهی حکم و عنان
O you from whom justice is unknown, you resemble the goat that gave her milk to the wolf-cub.”
تو بدان بز مانی ای مجهول‌داد ** که نژاد گرگ را او شیر داد
The Cadi’s reply to the Súfi.
جواب دادن قاضی صوفی را
The Cadi said, “It is our duty to acquiesce, whatever slap or cruelty the (Divine) destiny may bring to pass.
گفت قاضی واجب آیدمان رضا ** هر قفا و هر جفا کارد قضا
I am inwardly pleased with the decision (inscribed) in the (Heavenly) Scrolls, though my face has become sour—for Truth is bitter.
خوش‌دلم در باطن از حکم زبر ** گرچه شد رویم ترش کالحق مر
This heart of mine is an orchard, and my eye is like the cloud: (when) the cloud weeps the orchard laughs joyously and happily.
این دلم باغست و چشمم ابروش ** ابر گرید باغ خندد شاد و خوش
In a year of drought the orchards are reduced to death and agony by the sun laughing unconscionably.1580
سال قحط از آفتاب خیره‌خند ** باغها در مرگ و جان کندن رسند
You have read in God’s Commandment (the words) and weep ye much: why have you remained grinning like a roast (sheep’s) head?
ز امر حق وابکوا کثیرا خوانده‌ای ** چون سر بریان چه خندان مانده‌ای
You will be the light of the house, like the candle, if like the candle you shed showers of tears.
روشنی خانه باشی هم‌چو شمع ** گر فرو پاشی تو هم‌چون شمع دمع
The mother’s or father’s sourness of face preserves the child from every harm.
آن ترش‌رویی مادر یا پدر ** حافظ فرزند شد از هر ضرر
You have experienced the pleasure of laughing, O inordinate laugher: (now) experience the pleasure of weeping (and recognise) that it is a mine of sugar.
ذوق خنده دیده‌ای ای خیره‌خند ** ذوق گریه بین که هست آن کان قند